The imaginative literature of African and Afro-American authors writing in Western languages has long been seen as standing outside the Western literary canon.

Fifty-one essays by writers such as Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, and Zora Neale Hurston, as well as critics and academics such as Henry Louis

Within the Circle is the first anthology to present the entire spectrum of twentieth-century African American literary and cultural criticism. It begins with th

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s Tradition and the Black Atlantic is both a vibrant romp down the rabbit hole of cultural studies and an examination of the discipline's

African American literature is over. With this provocative claim Kenneth Warren sets out to identify a distinctly African American literature—and to change th